Re: [rust-dev] box ref foo?

2014-05-27 Thread Oleg Eterevsky
As far as I understand (I'm a newbie too), it means that 'radius' is the reference to the value in the box. On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Tommi rusty.ga...@icloud.com wrote: What is the meaning of this 'box ref foo' syntax found in the tutorial over at

Re: [rust-dev] box ref foo?

2014-05-27 Thread Simon Sapin
On 27/05/2014 18:27, Tommi wrote: What is the meaning of this 'box ref foo' syntax found in the tutorial over at __http://doc.rust-lang.org/tutorial.html#references (Sorry for uglifying the link, my posts seem to get flagged as spam if they contain links) In short, it's: enum Shape {

Re: [rust-dev] box ref foo?

2014-05-27 Thread Tommi Tissari
Thanks. I had failed to realize that 'ref radius' would make 'radius' a Boxf32 value. On 27 May 2014, at 20:29, Oleg Eterevsky o...@eterevsky.com wrote: As far as I understand (I'm a newbie too), it means that 'radius' is the reference to the value in the box. On Tue, May 27, 2014 at

Re: [rust-dev] box ref foo?

2014-05-27 Thread Kevin Ballard
It actually makes radius a f32. -Kevin On May 27, 2014, at 10:42 AM, Tommi Tissari rusty.ga...@icloud.com wrote: Thanks. I had failed to realize that 'ref radius' would make 'radius' a Boxf32 value. On 27 May 2014, at 20:29, Oleg Eterevsky o...@eterevsky.com wrote: As far as I